[Book of hours] : [Use of Rome].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Catholic Church.

Contributor:

Luini, Pacifico (Franciscan priest), active 19th century, former owner.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Latin.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

books of hours

devotional calendars

Devotional literature.

Prayers.

Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by P. Pacifico Luini, Milan (born Gioachino Luini in Milan, took the name Pacifico when joining the Franciscan order, served as a priest in the diocese of Bergamo in Tagliuno by the 1850s; inscription in ink, f. iii verso).

Sold at auction by Venator & Hanstein (Cologne, Germany), sale 169 (30 September 2022), lot 342.

Physical Description:

227 leaves : parchment ; 70 x 48 (40 x 28) mm bound to 71 x 54 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [after 1450]

Language Note:

Latin, with later title and instructions for one later prayer in Italian (f.226r-226v)

Summary:

Miniature book of hours on parchment for the Use of Rome, made in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century. Illuminated leaves at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, and the Office of the Dead, probably with miniatures, were removed and replaced with parchment leaves with text only, possibly in the 19th century (f. 13, 120, 150-151). Latin prayers for the Eucharist with Italian headings added at the end (f. 224r-227r), probably in the 19th century.

Contents:

1. f.1r-12v: [Calendar]

2. f.13r-29v: Ad Matutinum

3. f.29v-47r: Ad Laudem

4. f.47r-53v: Ad Primam

5. f.53v-60r: Ad Tertiam

6. f.60r-65v: Ad Sextam

7. f.66r-72r: Ad Nonam

8. f.72r-83r: Ad Vesperas

9. f.83r-115v: Ad Completorium

10. f.116r-119v: Missa beate Marie virginis

11. f.120r-149v: Septem psalmi penitentiales cum litaniis

12. f.150v-206v: Officium defunctorum

13. 208r-212r : [Hours of the Cross]

14. f.213r-221r: Dulcissime Domine / Beatus Augustinus

15. f.221v-223v: Orationes

16. f.224r-227r: Orazione à Gesù Chisto [sic] .

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Parchment, ii (19th-century (?) paper) + i (parchment) + 227 + iii (19th-century (?) paper); 1¹² 2-6⁸ 7-12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14⁸⁺¹(+9?) 15-16¹⁰ 17⁸⁺¹(+9) 18¹⁰ 19-22⁸ 23⁸⁻² (-7, -8 canceled) 24⁶ 25¹⁰ 26⁴; modern foliation in pencil, [i-iii, 1-227, i-iii], upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 13 long lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines.

Script: Written in Gothic rotunda script by a single hand.

Decoration: 9 illuminated 3- to 6-line initials in pink, blue, green, red, and white on gold grounds with foliate extensions (f. 29v, 47r, 53v, 60r, 66r, 72r, 83r, 116r, 213v); 1- and 2-line initials alternating between red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork throughout; rubrication in red throughout.

Binding: Later full leather, blind-tooled and -stamped but very worn; spine leather cracked vertically.

Origin: Written in northern Italy (Venator & Hanstein) after 1450 (inclusion of Saint Bernardino of Siena, canonized 1450, in calendar, f. 5v).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Cited as:

Book of Hours: Use of Rome (Ms. Codex 2136). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1402048529

Online:

Collation model